"Search! for what?"
"Guns, ammunition or anything that may be useful to the cause of liberty."
"Thieves! Whoever passes this door will have to do it over my dead body."
"Farmer Mervale, we mean you no harm if you are innocent, but if you are guilty then you must bear the punishment."
"Of what do you accuse me?"
Warner was about to equivocate and say that he believed arms were secreted on the premises, but he was too open for subterfuge, so he replied:
"We charge you with abducting and imprisoning a young maiden——"
"Ah! you have seen the mad monk?"
"Answer. Have you any maiden imprisoned on your premises?"
"If I had I should deny it, and if I have not I should still say that you are impertinent and a rebel who ought to be shot down."